Word: grimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commissioned no life-sized figures from Sculptress Hoffman to illustrate all the principal racial types of mankind for the museum's Chauncey Keep Hall of Living Man. Twenty-five of the figures will be full-length bronzes, the remainder heads and busts. With her husband. Violinist Samuel Bonarios Grimson as manager and chief photographer, and with a case full of notes and suggestions from British Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, 42-year...
...From Singapore we went into the jungles in a Ford just as though we were driving up Fifth Avenue. We forgot all about snake boots and the accessories you buy in outing stores. . . . Mr. Grimson would go up into the forest to persuade the natives to come down out of the trees to pose. We had a grand sort of Englishman with us. 'Hi there,' he would call, 'do you want some nice beads for your wife? Very well then, come down and pose.' I had my armature and clay mounted on the trunk rack behind...
...Kingdom of Iceland (whose king is big King Christian X of Denmark) did not refuse to grant a 75-year franchise to Transamerican when Judge Gudmunder Crimson of Rugby, N. Dak., who in 1930 represented his State at the millennial of the founding of the Icelandic parliament, intervened. Judge Grimson went to Copenhagen to plead with the King of Denmark and of Iceland...